I work as a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Baylor University, where I teach courses in American and British literature, poetry, and composition. My research interests are in modernism, poetics, genre theory, and aesthetics. My book Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature was published by Routledge in 2020 in its Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature series. My academic articles appear or are forthcoming in journals such as Arizona Quarterly, Criticism, Research in African Literatures, College Literature, and Modernist Cultures. Currently, I’m working on a project on the historical development and rhetorical purpose of the modern American lyric poem. My poems are published in Waxwing, Image, descant, Mudlark, Rattle, EcoTheo Review, Modern Language Studies, and other journals, and have been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes.

I was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where I completed a B.A. in Comparative Literature & Philosophy at McMaster University. I received my M.A. in English from Saint Louis University, and moved to the Waco, Texas area after finishing a Ph.D. in English at Western University in London, Ontario.